Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...syndicate, eleven members of the Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes. She was also designed for heavy weather. In trial runs, Sceptre looked her best when fighting to windward in a running sea. Free to move fast and safely in her yawning cockpit, her crewmen could put their stabilizing weight where it was needed. But some British experts were grumbling that Scottish Designer David Boyd, 55, had made Sceptre too rugged. With a foot less waterline length (45 ft. v. 44 ft.), Sceptre's displacement is 68,000 Ibs. compared to 56,800 for Columbia. While Columbia...
...whole series of engineering compromises. To get economy you have to sacrifice something else. The economy cars we have examined usually have low weight and low performance. You can't have everything. The successful manufacturer is the one who makes the best guess not on what the people say they want, but on what they want and are willing...
Underneath Sicily lies forever a Cyclops, crushed beneath the land's great weight, through the -vengeance of the gods. His mouth is beneath Etna, and hurls forth flames of lava...
Player's Weight. In Blackpool, England, Ventriloquist Terry Hall was threatened with loss of membership in the Association of Non-Smokers unless he stops his dummy from smoking during...
...when Harvard was invited to compete, Kent School eliminated its entrant. This time, the results were reversed, and the lightweights defeated Kent in one of the most difficult races of the week. Even a London newspaper called the race "the best in the regatta so far," and the extra weight of the prep schoolers almost brought victory. Harvard, however, finished in front by two-thirds of a length in 6 minutes, 58 seconds, the first Thames Cup trial won in a time under seven minutes...